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I loved the talk from E. Christopherson on the waning of men in culture. One of my favorite sayings is, "You can't replace misogyny with misandry." IOW, feminism cannot come at the expense of men just as manhood cannot come at the expense of women.

During the story about John and his friends going to Japan as foreign exchange students going to a late party, when John decided to bail as the marijuana came out and only one of his friends went with him, so they go the elevator and a bunch of police men greet them at the elevator doors, all I could think of was "Well, that escalated quickly!" Usually, in these stories, the rewards aren't quite as apparent or direct, or even sudden. John really dodged a bullet there!

Here's the quote and source for that interesting quote in Elder Chistofferson's awesome talk:

A man out of work is of special moment to the Church because, deprived of his inheritance, he is on trial as Job was on trial – for his integrity…. The Church cannot hope to save a man on Sunday if during the week it is a complacent witness to the crucifixion of his soul.”

Quoted in “Pure Religion: the story of the Church Welfare Since 1930” by Glen L. Rudd, 1995, p. 310

Oh. I don't think that is what it is talking about. It seems to be talking about a man who is already a member of the church. The "special moment" is the duty the church owes to this man beyond one day a week.

"The responsibility is upon us brethren. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." - President Thomas S. Monson,
followed by the glorious "Hope of Israel" hymn. And just when I thought my feels couldn't take anymore abuse.

NOTE: neither of these talks are religious whatsoever and may or may not align fully with the LDS perspective. I share them because this concept of "real men" waning is NOT just an LDS perspective. It is backed up by solid data and science. And how long have the prophets been warning us about this?

Funny because I often hear complaints from women about how the men in the ward should step up. Being a strong man doesn't mean that the wife has to be home barefoot pregnant. It means taking responsibility and being a good father and husband - a good priesthood holder.

To me, it seemed like; good for women for moving forward in education, etc., but men, don't you think about being stay-at-home or what have you. As much as he said genders are equal, it sounded like he wanted men to take it as a challenge that women are surpassing us in number.

This is my own opinion but men really shouldn't think about staying at home. I'm not trying to take away from gender equality when I say this but men, generally speaking, are better suited for the work place. Women, generally, are better suited for caring for others. That said, women are perfectly capable of doing work and men are perfectly capable of being caregivers. However, each gender has different strengths and weaknesses and these areas of responsibility better fit those strengths and weaknesses.

Hmmm. I heard it differently. My take was that men (boys) have been regressing and not fulfilling their duties by not achieving their potential. That is not to say that their duty cannot be staying at home, but that they need to get back to reality and start progressing. These were some grim stats the he read. My strong belief (as a husband and father of all girls) is that both parties need an education and need to pursue that to completion, if only to learn that success comes after hard work.

I would hope that today something would be said if the statistics were reversed. May be misguided hope, but a hope that the church has grown enough in awareness that it takes two for exaltation to address the situation.

In the shortest period of time since, um, all of human history we have an exponentially more advanced, connected, safe, healthy, and educated generation due to exponential advances in nearly every human endeavor (cough dispensation of fullness of times cough). These changes started to really become noticeable in the 1900s fertilized in the soil of the enlightenment but has really taken off in since the 1960s.

The cell phone in the hand of an African today has more computing power and access to better communication technology than the president of the United States had 25 years ago. What will another 25 years bring?

People look at the book of Revelations and see all doom and gloom. I look at it and see the story of mankind finally triumphing over our demons through the help of the Savior. Yes it will be hard, but the blessings of "overcoming" are unfathomable (see last two chapters of Revelations as well as promises given throughout that whole book to those that "overcometh").

Here's an interesting video by Jason Silva (non LDS and I believe he's also atheist) about this exponentially changing/improving society we're experiencing. My takaway? There is far, far more hope than there is reason to complain or fear:

When LDS children decide to part ways with the Church/Gospel and their parents 'throw them out' or go ballistic on them, I can't help but think that the Lord shakes his head and does a Cap Piccard facepalm.

Kids will do thing that you hate. But as a dad, it's not my job to like their choices. It's my job to love them no matter what they do or say or become.

Argue is a poor choice of words. We shouldn't fight, it implies trying to dominate. Arguing is a form of persuasion, to try and win someone over to your way of thinking. Of course we should argue, we just need to keep the contention down.

I agree as well (of course using meeting house wifi to post to Reddit). Entertainment or the act of only doing things if entertained means that you lose out on important learning activities that may seem to be less than entertaining.